2. Oil and Natural Gas: Global Resources

Abstract

Accumulations of natural gas that are trapped in ice-like crystalline solids consisting of gas molecules surrounded by cages of water molecules. Hydrates are stable at certain temperatures and pressures within some sea–floor sediments and within permafrost in polar regions. Synonymous with gas clathrates.

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